LEONARD COHEN - BOOGIE STREET

BOOGIE STREET

LEONARD COHEN

SONGWRITERS: LEONARD COHEN & SHARON ROBINSON

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: THE NEW SONGS

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR: 2001

Ten New Songs é o décimo álbum de estúdio de Leonard Cohen, lançado em 2001, feito em parceria com a cantora, compositora e produtora Sharon Robinson.

Leonard Cohen is a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet active in music since 1967. Cohen has released 13º studio albums and 6 live albums during the course of a recording career lasting almost 50 years, throughout which he has remained an active poet. His entire catalogue is available on Columbia Records. His 1967 debut Songs of Leonard Cohen earned an RIAA gold record; he followed up with three more highly acclaimed albums: Songs From A Room (1969), Songs of Love and Hate (1971) and New Skin For The Old Ceremony (1974), before allowing Phil Spector to produce Death of a Ladies' Man for Warner Bros. Records in 1977. Cohen returned to Columbia in 1979 for Recent Songs, but the label declined to release his next album, Various Positions (1984) in the US, leaving it to American shops to import it from CBS Canada. In 1988, Columbia got behind Cohen again and gave full support to I'm Your Man, which brought his career to new heights, and Cohen followed it with 1992's The Future. Cohen then took a nine-year hiatus, and returned with Ten New Songs in (2001), which he made with Sharon Robinson, following this with Dear Heather (2004). In 2008 Cohen began touring for the first time in 15 years and, as well as the release of several live albums, he released Old Ideas (2012) which peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart. This was the highest ranking ever for a Leonard Cohen album, and became his first to top the Canadian Albums Chart, a feat he repeated with his followup, Popular Problems, released in 2014. His live albums include Live Songs (1973), Cohen Live: Leonard Cohen in Concert (1994), Live in London (2009) and Songs from the Road, (2010) from his 2008–2009 world tour, and Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (2009).

O crown of light, o darkened one

I never thought we'd meet

You kiss my lips, and then it's done

I'm back on boogie street

A sip of wine, a cigarette

And then it's time to go

I tidied up the kitchenette

I tuned the old banjo

I'm wanted at the traffic jam

They're saving me a seat

I'm what I am, and what I am

Is back on boogie street

And o my love, I still recall

The pleasures that we knew

The rivers and the waterfall

Wherein I bathed with you

Bewildered by your beauty there

I'd kneel to dry your feet

By such instructions you prepare

A man for boogie street

O crown of light, o darkened one?

So come, my friends, be not afraid

We are so lightly here

It is in love that we are made

In love we disappear

Tho' all the maps of blood and flesh

Are posted on the door

There's no one who has told us yet

What boogie street is for

O crown of light, o darkened one

I never thought we'd meet

You kiss my lips, and then it's done

I'm back on boogie street

A sip of wine, a cigarette

And then it's time to go